BCM/Follow Up Flag Issue

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Dennis D. Broadbooks

I seem to have uncovered what may be a possible glitch in programming within the BCM side of Outlook 2003. If I set up a follow up flag in the "Contacts" side of Outlook, when the time comes for the "follow up" it pops up under the "reminders" window. However when I set up a follow up flag for a contact in the Business Contact Manager folder, the reminder does NOT pop up when it's supposed to. I've set up a number of them & NONE of them work. Is there a way to turn this "on" or is there a problem in the software?
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP]

The BCM contacts do not support follow up flags.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Sally M.

Sue,

Is that by design? If not will it be corrected with SR-1 or will it be in a
future release? Thanks.
The BCM contacts do not support follow up flags.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers


Dennis D. Broadbooks said:
I seem to have uncovered what may be a possible glitch in programming
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within the BCM side of Outlook 2003. If I set up a follow up flag in the
"Contacts" side of Outlook, when the time comes for the "follow up" it pops
up under the "reminders" window. However when I set up a follow up flag for
a contact in the Business Contact Manager folder, the reminder does NOT pop
up when it's supposed to. I've set up a number of them & NONE of them work.
Is there a way to turn this "on" or is there a problem in the software?
 
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Dennis D. Broadbooks

Surely this has to be a simple oversight on someone's part! The BCM contact window allows you to go in & set the flag. It just doesn't work! If it's that way intentionally...why? Please check & see if this is going to be addressed in future updates

Thank you for your help in this matter!
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP]

It's apparently by design. We have no information on what features might appear in a future version of BCM. You might want to send your suggestions to [email protected]
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP]

BCM makes a lot of compromises in the course of displaying information in familiar Outlook contacts and actually storing that information in an MSDE database. You might want to send your suggestions to [email protected]

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Dennis D. Broadbooks

Sue, can you tell me exactly where to find the BCM database in MS Explorer? The only way I can see to backup this database is within the BCM program under Business Database/Backup. Is that the ONLY avenue to make a backup of the BCM database

Thanks again for your assistance in this matter!
 
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